Comment on ``Chemically frozen phase separation in an adsorbed layer''

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Abstract
In a recent paper [Phys. Rev. E 52, R4616 (1995)], J. Verdasca, P. Borckmans, and G. Dewel predict that an interplay between adsorption, desorption, and surface diffusion may result in the formation of ``frozen'' islands in the case of attractive adsorbate-adsorbate interactions. The model employed, however, is not realistic because the authors neglect the influence of adsorbate-adsorbate interactions on the desorption rate. Involving the latter effect in the analysis suppresses the formation of frozen patterns.

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